Good point, and you're right: the buck has to stop somewhere.
However, Edsu is a federated protocol with an open source implementation. So it only disappears when the last person to care about it stops keeping it up to date with the compiler. That's about as good a guarantee as you can get, I think (e.g. telnet is still around after 49 years).
However, Edsu is a federated protocol with an open source implementation. So it only disappears when the last person to care about it stops keeping it up to date with the compiler. That's about as good a guarantee as you can get, I think (e.g. telnet is still around after 49 years).